fishwife
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"Big Lil" was a fishwife, and her husband, father and son all worked on the trawlers.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2017
“Angela Carter” is a flickering entity, part fishwife and part fairy.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015
Once safely on the north bank, I asked a cheerful fishwife the way to The George, where I found Falconer eating his supper—fish, again.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021
In Sutcliffe’s sepia-toned prints, Whitby appears misty, moody and — if you replace the somberly dressed fishwives with tourists — almost identical to today.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015
But that was the Ryan Women: fishwives to the marrow, they were always ready to fight and knew the places that would cut deepest.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
His clothes bagged on him, he came of peasant stock and loved to chat in his native Flemish with the fishwives in the market place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farther on the fishwives were crying the day’s catch, and a boy was beating time on a drum as a shabby old bear danced in a circle for a ring of river runners.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
